 And everybody's favorite segment, brought to you by Digi-Key and Adafruit it is This week's Iron MPi is from Electronic Assembly Display Visions. So I'd like to mix it up and this week we're going to look at a display, a series of displays from Display Visions and it's this Dog 102 series. There's a couple of them. There's the Dog S102W. There's the N and there's the B. There's a couple but the one I'm looking at today is the W and here's the three options available. The top left one, it has like a blue dye so when you backlight it, it gets you have this really cool white on blue look. The middle one is a reflective version so it's a daylight visible, not meant to be backlit and the bottom right one is a black LCD on clear and you can backlight that save with an amber backlight as you see here. And I saw this on Digi-Key and I just thought they were so cute. These are like you know they're not very big as you see they're only 102 by 64 pixels but they're very small and what I really like about them is they're easy to select or solder. So we've actually seen a similar display from the same company that the DOG series used in the Pimaroni Displayotron and you can kind of see how they've got that row of headers at the top and then the pins at the bottom and it's easy to place it onto a PCB with the backlight behind it and it's very slim and easy to solder. Compare that to an LCD module here's a classic 16 by 2 LCD module you see it's really chunky and we get them with headers attached if you'd like but it's like it just makes for a much bigger build like you have this extra module it's a couple millimeters above before you even get to the LCD and then you know it can be up to a centimeter in height and maybe for your product or project you want something very slim and easy to assemble while they will do the job. These don't come default with a backlight but there are backlights available again very slim backlights only like a millimeter too thick and you can put them underneath and then solder them in place so that makes for a very compact design. There's also a touchscreen available it's a resistive touchscreen so you can use like any resistive touchscreen controller or microcontroller with a couple analog pins will also work just fine and that fits over the display. The display has this really if you're not sure which one you want I actually thought this was kind of cool the company that makes this electronic assembly they have this like simulator app where you can select what kind of display and what color backlight you want and then they also have a bunch of like demo graphics um so here's one with like you know graphing the temperature over time for example yeah so it's like it's not like a tft or lcd maker but it shows you all the different looks and feels yeah I thought that was kind of cool because it's like it shows you like okay here's the resolution you're gonna get here's what text and graphics looks like um and so I I picked up a couple from digikey and I wired them up to an itsy bitsy and I just searched for a driver for this chip it's I think the uc 1701 and I got it up and running in just like a few minutes basically I just wired it up and you can see this is the reflective version so it's daylight visible and then I also got the uh trans reflective version so this version you would backlight um and you can tell because see it's in this foam um if I put it over a backlight you know it it shines through whereas this one um doesn't so this one you'd want to backlight but this one actually is good for daylight visibility or if you have like edge lighting it'll probably work just fine or you know it's not meant for a backlight um this version is and there's like a full series of these there's like a bunch of different ones in this family um but like if you want basically a reliable display you'll be able to get a lot of it's very slim um it plugs in with point one inch header uses spi well documented um these displays are really pretty cute and inexpensive and really easy to use so I like them that's why you can use on digikey um digikey site has a short url that you can use if uh you just want to do digikey.com slash short slash z five two and four p you can also just search for it by 1481 10 9 3 and d yep or you can search for the dog s 102 and that'll that'll give you the full series but really there's no reason anymore to just have led indicators on your product or project you can add it lcd so easily now um not a lot of memory not a lot of space needed um these are super cute so that's why it's this week's i npn all right thank you so much of course